commandment separately. I might understand then that the other commandments of the Torah were likewise spoken all with one utterance. But it says: “All these words.” These words only were spoken in one utterance, but all the rest of the commandments of the Torah were spoken separately, each one by itself. Saying. This teaches that they answered ‘yes’ to a positive commandment and ‘no’ to a negative commandment—these are the words of R. Ishmael. R. Akiba says: They answered ‘yes’ to a positive commandment and